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Mayor of disaster-hit Minamisoma urges national gov't to learn from tragedyMinamisoma Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai says Japan is moving in the wrong direction despite last year's twin natural disasters and nuclear crisis which he says provided the country with an excellent opportunity to change itself for the better.

"I seriously question whether politicians on the national level really understand the reality we are facing," he says, adding that the Fukushima tragedy could have been a golden opportunity and a turning point for Japan.

Nearly one year and eight months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant near his city, Sakurai and his staff are still working nonstop.

He paid a visit to Tokyo recently to prod the central government to speed up the radiation decontamination process. But he says his talks with officials of the Reconstruction Agency and the Environment Ministry on Oct. 31 made little headway due to the difficulty in securing temporary storage facilities for contaminated soil before finding long-term storage facilities.

Sakurai is as frustrated with the protracted decontamination work in his city as the way the government, mass media and business leaders are treating the Fukushima nuclear disaster like a thing of the past and are supporting the restart of nuclear reactors.

When Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda signaled his intention in June to go along with the restarts of the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant, the mayor was meeting with residents living in temporary housing and evacuation centers.

Unproven parts in S.Korean nuclear reactorsSouth Korea has announced plans to immediately shut down 2 nuclear reactors to replace thousands of parts that were shipped with fabricated warranties.

The Knowledge Economy Ministry revealed to reporters on Monday that 8 parts suppliers have been faking their warranties since 2003. A total of 5,233 such parts are reportedly in use in 5 nuclear reactors.

The ministry says the parts in question were "ordinary" things such as fuses and power switches, and are unrelated to the reactors themselves. It maintains that the parts will not cause radiation leaks. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] .

Japan mulls gas pipeline from Russian far east to hub near TokyoTOKYO — Japan is considering a 400 billion yen pipeline stretching from Russia’s far east to an industrial hub near Tokyo, as it eyes new energy supplies following the Fukushima crisis, a major utility said on Monday.

The proposed 1,400-kilometer-long offshore pipeline would start in Russia’s Sakhalin island and trace a course south along the Pacific coastline to near Japan’s capital, according to a spokesman for Tokyo Gas. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

Decision on Oi nuclear plant faultline postponed TOKYO — Experts have postponed a decision on whether a faultline underneath Japan’s only operating nuclear plant is active or what to do with the facility.

A five-member team commissioned by the Nuclear Regulation Agency inspected the Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture on Friday to examine a suspected faultline there. Two of Oi’s four reactors resumed operation in July for the first time since last year’s nuclear crisis triggered by a quake and tsunami that hit another plant.

The experts agreed Sunday that part of Oi’s underground structure slid as far back as 125,000 years ago but couldn’t tell if it was because of an active faultline or a landslide. They will meet again on Wednesday. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

Active faults found running through Nagoya: researchersTwo active faults have been newly discovered in Nagoya, with part of them running just beneath major highways in the metropolis for about 5 kilometers, researchers said Monday.

A team of researchers at Nagoya University and Hiroshima University has warned of the possibility that the faults, which extend vertically through the city for at least 10 km, "could trigger a magnitude-7-class earthquake or even greater ones." [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

Unproven parts in S.Korean nuclear reactorsSouth Korea has announced plans to immediately shut down 2 nuclear reactors to replace thousands of parts that were shipped with fabricated warranties.

The Knowledge Economy Ministry revealed to reporters on Monday that 8 parts suppliers have been faking their warranties since 2003. A total of 5,233 such parts are reportedly in use in 5 nuclear reactors.

The ministry says the parts in question were "ordinary" things such as fuses and power switches, and are unrelated to the reactors themselves. It maintains that the parts will not cause radiation leaks. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] .

Japan mulls gas pipeline from Russian far east to hub near TokyoTOKYO — Japan is considering a 400 billion yen pipeline stretching from Russia’s far east to an industrial hub near Tokyo, as it eyes new energy supplies following the Fukushima crisis, a major utility said on Monday.

The proposed 1,400-kilometer-long offshore pipeline would start in Russia’s Sakhalin island and trace a course south along the Pacific coastline to near Japan’s capital, according to a spokesman for Tokyo Gas. [link to www.japantoday.com] .

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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world's biggest shipbuilder and a leading industrial plant EPC contractor, announced today that it started building ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) vacuum vessel sectors and ports at its headquarters in Ulsan, South Korea.

ITER, an international project to design and build an experimental fusion reactor, approved Hyundai Heavy to start building two of the nine vacuum vessel sectors and 35 of the 53 ports. The Company is scheduled to complete building this equipment by the end of 2017 for delivery to the Cadarache facility in France where the nuclear fusion reactor will be installed. [link to www.4-traders.com] .

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November 02, 2012

By MASAKAZU HONDA/ Staff Writer

FUKUSHIMA—More than 10,000 people from across Japan are seeking criminal charges against officials of Japan's government and the utility that operates the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, after a similar mass complaint this summer accused 33 officials of causing death and injury through negligence.

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A worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory unknowingly opened a canister on Aug. 20, containing an uncontrolled radioactive substance. The accident unleashed widespread contamination over the next several days, according to a federal report.

An accident response team surveyed 270 individuals and two dozen homes in Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Doña Ana counties as well as locations in Colorado and Arizona to determine the extent of contamination. According to the federal accident investigation report, five people were found with skin contamination and 25 people had clothing or personal items with contamination from the incident.